worst Kevin Smith movie

get this what if jay and silent bob smoked a really big blunt

always forget that mallrats guy is the twin brother of the dazed & confused guy and not just the same guy

and by “always” I mean the 3 times it’s crossed my mind since 1996

Has anyone, even his fans/defenders, seen those “Hockey Hosers” movies with his daughter?

Huge LOL at the moment when, after the entire trailer has been the same 4 actors actors reenacting the same old scenes from the same old Kevin Smith movies, the text appears: "WELCOME TO A NEW ERA"

"Yes, I will feed the dog, Ma!" [Gives camera a "see what I did there" look]

always forget that mallrats guy is the twin brother of the dazed & confused guy and not just the same guy

today I learned

Or to draw a closer analogy, like a movie that got made just so a bunch of Hollywood chums could get together and have a good time making a movie on someone else's dime, like Smokey and the Bandit II. On that level, it was fitfully amusing and hard to get angry about.

yeah this is what it kinda boils down to for me, Kevin Smith's early movies worked because they seemed like a lot of fun to make. they're like those shitty SNL sketches that eventually devolve into the actors just trying to make each other laugh. Clerks 1 worked because all four of those guys seemed like they probably did spend a lot of time together, plus most of it was just Smith appropriating stories from his own life. By Clerks 2 it felt like the guys hadn't seen each other in years, Clerks 3 will probably somehow be ever worse

"I loved the movie then, but I know I'd probably hate it if I saw it now."

I remember an old Judge Dredd story in which there was a leak at a chemical plant that causes hundreds of deaths. And then there's a riot - not because people are angry at the leak, but because the deaths mean there are job vacancies at the chemical plant and in the grim world of Mega-City One everybody wants a job. Not so much for the money but for the sense of having something to live for. And recently there have been protests in India because the armed forces want to get rid of jobs-for-life-plus-a-pension and bring in fixed four-year terms. Quoting the BBC:

Young people in India's smaller towns and villages prepare for years to become soldiers in the armed forces as the job brings prestige, a regular income and for some, a way out of poverty. The new Agnipath scheme is aimed at people aged between 17.5 and 21 years. It says that successful candidates will join the armed services for four years, after which only 25% of them will be retained. The soldiers will go through training for six months and then will be deployed for three and a half years. During this period, they will get a monthly starting salary of 30,000 rupees ($384; £316), along with additional benefits which will go up to 40,000 rupees by the end of the four-year service.

Imagine young people rioting because they want to be in the armed forces. That's what I think of when I think of films like Clerks and Reality Bites etc from the 1990s. To a much lesser extent Clerks because the characters were aware that they were failures and were trying to cover it up, but they were self-aware. And of course Kevin Smith himself tried to be a success. He tried to steer his own path. I can admire that. It's just that his films attracted a certain kind of person who didn't get the characters' self-awareness.

It's the same with On the Road. They all feel like period pieces from a time when everybody dreamed of working in a record store forever.